Under the watchful eye of Zhou Yafu and other generals.

Liu Che smiled and clapped his palms, and a man led a horse and walked over from a distance.

"A horse?" Zhou Yafu and others looked at each other.

They did see that the man had nothing around him but the horse.

It's that horse, and it's a pretty ordinary horse.

"This is an artifact?" Zhou Yafu couldn't help but have doubts in his heart.

No matter in that aspect, this horse and that man are ordinary and can't be more ordinary.

Where does an artifact look like?

Liu Che smiled and said, "Captain, please take a closer look at the horse's hooves!" ”

Only then did Zhou Yafu and the others notice that the horse's four hooves seemed to be wrapped with an object similar to an iron tool.

"Ning Cheng ......" Liu Che instructed the man who was leading the horse: "Ride on the horse and run around to see!" ”

"No!" When Ning Cheng heard this, he saluted the Son of Heaven and the prince and the generals in the distance, and then turned over and got on his horse, waved his whip, and dada! The sound of the horse's hooves sounded, and the horse, which was originally just an ordinary horse, burst out with a strong sprint in an instant, like a gust of wind, and ran around the field, even in some places with gravel and rubble, like a pasture, like a flat ground.

This, immediately made Zhou Yafu and the others widen their eyes and looked at this qiē in amazement.

It's really this qiē in front of you, it's a revolutionary change!

It was clear to any general that the potential of cavalry was very high. But there were also many restrictions on cavalry.

For example, in the beginning, when there were no stirrups and saddles, cavalry had little combat effectiveness at all. At that time, cycling was the mainstream and the royal road.

The appearance of stirrups and saddles at the end of the Warring States period freed the hands of the cavalry, allowing the cavalry to fight on horses and use crossbow arrows to shoot at each other, which made the cavalry replace the chariot soldiers.

However, the restrictions of cavalry were still very many.

Such as. The cavalry needs a battlefield suitable for its movement, otherwise, once the horse's hooves are injured and infected. It is equivalent to scrapping a valuable war horse worth tens of thousands of dollars that takes four or five years to train and bred.

Therefore, fighting in the Central Plains, the cavalry usually did not dare to maneuver in a large area, and always acted with the infantry. Peacetime. Most of the cavalry led their horses, waiting for their horses like uncles, for fear of bumping into them.

Only when the time of battle will the horse sprint.

Even in the area of the Great Wall in the north, the Huns, who had an almost endless source of war horses, when they broke through the pass, basically dismounted and walked, and generally rarely moved as they did on the grassland.

And now. The iron tools on the four hooves of the war horse that Ning Cheng rode on, as long as he was a soldier. It is known that this will completely change the way the cavalry fights.

With this, the cavalry can be regarded as a real clutch soldier, and can maximize mobility!

Even......

Zhou Yafu took a deep breath.

He knew that as soon as this thing came out, he was afraid that many ideas that were previously regarded as utopian and deviant would have room to be realized.

For example, he once fantasized about putting an iron jacket on the cavalry and making it a heavy cavalry in heavy armor.

Such an invulnerable, invulnerable iron shell is enough to become the vanguard of the battlefield, crush a qiē army formation, and disperse all the enemies who stand in the way.

When he made this idea, he went to his father with great interest, but it was mercilessly criticized as an unrealistic fantasy.

The reason is that there are two prerequisites for the realization of this idea.

First, find a war horse that can carry moving armor. And it is not impossible to carry a war horse of such weight, but each one is a BMW worth a thousand gold!

Second, even if there is a war horse that can carry it, such a weight burden will make the already fragile hooves of the horse even more fragile, and it is fine on the soft grass, but once it reaches other places, it will immediately become a target that cannot move.

Instead of this, it is better to simply develop similar hoplites!

Although they can't move, at least the hoplites can play a greater role when defending!

However, the qiē in front of him made Zhou Yafu pick up the wild fantasy of his youth and frivolity - to create a cavalry that crushes the enemy like an iron wall.

As for the current situation, Zhou Yafu knows that this small change will lead to something.

That is, as long as there are enough of that kind of iron horse set - Zhou Yafu didn't know what that thing was called, so he called it that for the time being.

Then, the main cavalry of his 100,000 army would be able to arrive in Liang State one to two days in advance.

At such a critical moment, the role of reinforcements arriving on the battlefield one day earlier is naturally beyond doubt, at the very least, it can greatly boost the morale of the Liang army, and even change the situation of the entire battlefield!

What's more, as long as there is enough of that thing, his cavalry can rest assured that they can boldly intersperse battles, and even appear in places where the enemy does not expect.

"Sure enough, it's an artifact!" Zhou Yafu took a deep breath and said to Liu Che: "At home, I don't know how many of these things there are now?" ”

Liu Che laughed twice and said: "In fact, in the middle of August last year, the lonely ministers Ning Cheng and Zhang Tang had already preliminarily figured out this thing, but there were still some technical problems that had not been solved at that time, and there was no large-scale production!" ”

For the horseshoe, Liu Che has been paying attention to it since he was reborn.

After the examination, with enough manpower, he immediately set up the project and handed it over to Ning Cheng to be responsible.

Even in those days in Hedong, Liu Che never relaxed his oversight of the project.

By mid-August, the first pair of horseshoes that could be used in combat was made.

However, there were still some technical problems, such as structural and design defects, that did not lead to mass production.

Until the beginning of last month, Liu Che copied the Du family and several other merchant families, in addition to wealth and land, the biggest benefit Liu Che obtained was hundreds of craftsmen.

With these experienced craftsmen on board, the horseshoe project matured quickly.

To date, 1,000 sets of horseshoes have been cast.

Enough to arm a light cavalry capable of lightning strikes!

Originally, Liu Che thought that Liu Bi, the king of Wu, would wait until the first month of the year to raise troops, just like in his previous life, so he did not urge too impatiently, and even for the sake of secrecy, even the craftsmen of Shaofu were not transferred.

It's a pity!

Yes, Liu Che was also very ashamed, he lowered his head and sighed: "Because of the lack of time and craftsmen, only a thousand sets have been made so far...... However, Lone believes that in the next three days, Shaofu should be able to produce about 3,000 sets urgently, and then send them to the front line with the baggage. ”

"A thousand sets? It's a little ......" Zhou Yafu regretted, but he immediately said: "But I also helped the minister a lot, please send the thousand sets to the family immediately......"

Liu Che smiled: "Lone has been ready for a long time!" ”

"At this moment, the carriage carrying the horseshoe is already outside the barracks!"

"Oh, this thing was originally called a horseshoe...... "Zhou Yafu praised: "This name is good!" Very apt! (To be continued......)

PS: I went to hang water tonight~ I got an injection, the drug affects the brain, and it is very inflexible~ I wrote it from ten o'clock to now, and I only wrote a chapter, a tragedy~

What I owe yesterday and today, I will definitely make up for it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow~

Two days after tomorrow, every day is 1w+